Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant

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Examples

For instance, the Friar tells an aggressive story about a crooked Summoner, a sort of process-server, who runs a string of call-girls and operates a follow-up blackmail racket, relying on the threat of denunciation to the church courts.

Rubempre, endorsed to order of Metivier, and finally to our order, matured the thirtieth of April last, protested by Doublon, process-server, on the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.fr. c.

It will be recollected that about a month ago a process-server and his escort retreated on Lough Mask House, followed by a mob, and that on the following day all the farm servants were ordered to leave Mr. Boycott's employment.